You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.